Georges de Pimodan

Georges de Pimodan (29 January 1822-18 September 1860) was a French Legitimist military officer who served in the armies of the Austrian Empire and the Papal States. Pimodan, a reactionary, joined the army of Austria in 1847 and served in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and the Italian Wars of Independence, and he was killed while serving as a general of the Papal Army at the Battle of Castelfidardo in 1860.

Biography
Georges de Pimodan was born in Echenay, eastern France on 29 January 1822, the son of a cavalry captain of the French Army. He studied at Friborg, a Jesuit school, and he was admitted to the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, but he refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the Orleanist Louis Philippe I, instead defecting to the Austrian Empire. In 1847, he became a Second Lieutenant in the light horse of the Austrian military, and he became aide-de-camp to the Austrian commander in Italy, Joseph Radetzky. He was made a Major and a Count after single-handedly capturing a Hungarian artillery battery at Moor during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, and he became a colonel at the young age of 33 in 1855. That year, he resigned from the Austrian military and married Emma Couronnel, the daughter of one of King Charles X of France's gentlemen. In April 1860, he joined the ranks of the Papal Army due to his fervent Catholicism, and he became a general on 3 August 1860. In September 1860, he was killed while charging to attack the Sardinian artillery stationed on the heights of Castelfidardo; several of his French compatriots, particularly nobles from western France, were also killed in the decisive Italian victory.